grass widow

Etymology
The word appears in the Germanic languages in different forms and senses, but the oldest (both 16th century) are and 🇨🇬, both meaning “girl who has lost her virginity, harlot”. Therefore “grass” in all likelihood refers to a bedding for premarital sex. Compare the expression. The girl became a “widow” in the sense that she was neither married nor a virgin. The sense then developed through “married woman who has relations in her husband’s absence” to the contemporary, softened meaning. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A married woman whose spouse is away.
 * , translated by Marian Magid and Elizabeth Pollet Collected stories : Gimpel the fool to The letter writer: Gimpel the fool & other stories, The Spinoza of Market Street, Short Friday & other stories, The séance & other stories, "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy", New York : Library of America : Distributed in the United States by Penguin Putnam, p. 461:
 * And who ever heard of a demon sending his wife a divorce? When a demon marries a daughter of mortals,he usually lets her remain a grass widow.
 * 1)  An unmarried woman who has had premarital sexual relations; a former mistress.
 * 1)  An unmarried woman who has had premarital sexual relations; a former mistress.
 * 1)  An unmarried woman who has had premarital sexual relations; a former mistress.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: groene weduwe, onbestorven weduwe
 * Faroese: graseinkja
 * Finnish: vihreä leski
 * German:, grüne Witwe
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Kazakh: уақытша күйеусіз тұрған әйел
 * Lithuanian: gyvanašlė
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gressenke
 * Nynorsk: grasenke, grasenkje
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: esposa separada temporalmente
 * Swedish: